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Marie Theresa Hernández, PhD
Professor
University of Houston
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• World Cultures & Literatures Program
Department of Modern & Classical Languages
• Affiliated Faculty - Anthropology Program,
Department of Comparative Cultural Studies
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This website is a work in progress
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina (1824-1894): Myth and History in the
Rio Grande Valley
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Dr. Hernández is currently writing a book about Juan Nepomuceno Cortina.
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Letter and photograph courtesy of Museum of South Texas
The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos
2014
Books
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Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire
2008
Delirio: The Fantastic the Demonic and the Reel
2002
Commentaries, Events, Links
Remington 12 - Image from the Philadelphia Evening National Ledger,
November 1, 1922, p. 17. Courtesy Library of Congress
Art
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Photography
Marie-Theresa Hernandez "Angel With Eyes Closed" at San Isidro Cemetery, 2017
University of Houston Student Photographs
Photo by Diana Zapata Delgado
San Isidro Cemetery, Sugar Land, Texas 2019
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